VacationSelector

New York or Zagreb?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

New YorkZagreb
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkZagreb
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km178
Coast distance1 km117 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 43 points.43
New YorkZagreb
Score9552
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3827
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 15 points.15
New YorkZagreb
Score6045
Museums within 10 km11941
Museums within 2 km of centre3140
Share of museums within 2 km %2698
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New York leads by 28 points.28
New YorkZagreb
Score8961
Drinking venues within 4 km4,1591,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4857
Nightclubs within 4 km19263
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 5 points.5
New YorkZagreb
Score3934
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 44 points.44
New YorkZagreb
Score7228
Tourist attractions within 2 km377
Park area within 2 km134 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. New York leads by 14 points.14
New YorkZagreb
Score7460
Notable places within 2 km268122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 37 points.37
New YorkZagreb
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 4 points.4
New YorkZagreb
Score5862
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
DubrovnikDBV
9 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
SplitSPU
9 h 0 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
13 h 20 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureNew YorkZagreb
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m127 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkZagreb
City population8,804,190767,131
People per km²7,256
Museums within 10 km15727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre13242
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.